On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Fluxus movement, the Galerie Eva Vautier is pleased to present the group exhibition Fluxus Côte d’Azur…
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Fluxus movement, the Galerie Eva Vautier is pleased to present the group exhibition Fluxus Côte d’Azur 1963-68…2023; Curator Eva Vautier; History and documentation Eric De Backer. Group exhibition with: Marcel Alocco, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Biga, Robert Bozzi, George Brecht, Donna Brewer, Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, Charles Dreyfus, Jean Dupuy, Robert Erébo, Robert Filliou, Olivier Garcin, Dany Gobert, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Max Horde, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Milan Knížák, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Jacques Lizène, George Maciunas, Laurent Marissal, Jean Mas, Larry Miller, Serge Oldenbourg dit ‘Serge III’, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, René Pietropaoli, Pierre Pontani, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Alain Snyers, Daniel Spoerri, Marianne Staffeldt, Jacques Strauch & Michou Strauch-Barelli, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth, Annie Vautier, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts. View of the exhibition Fluxus Côte d’Azur 1963-68…2023 , February 2023, Galerie Eva Vautier Photo © François Fernandez. The gallery team would especially like to thank Ben Vautier, Caterina Gualco, Patrick Michaud, Christian Zervudacki and Bernard Giovagnoli for lending works and archives from their collections. PERFORMANCES at the opening of the exhibition, Friday 10 February: 6 pm: Singular procession of pupils from the Vernier secondary school, led rhythmically by their art teacher Virginie Oberlinger. 6.33 pm: Re-interpretation of John Cage’s musical performance 4’33 by the pupils of the collègePort-Lympiasous the inspired direction of their music teacher Emmanuelle Catlin and of their French literature and Niçois teacher Michel Pallanca. 7 pm: Readings in three voices in homage to Fluxus by Alain Snyers, with Olivier Garcin and Max Horde. 7.33 pm: Max Horde presents a surprise. The exhibition Fluxus Côte d’Azur 1963-1968 focuses on the single territory which, from Nice to Villefranche-sur-Mer, saw a successful grafting of the Fluxus phenomenon in France, and this first and foremost thanks to the vibrant personality of the artist Ben Vautier, his energy, his tireless and multilingual curiosity, his intuition and his sense of organisation. The exhibition presents a chronicle of the five years running from the “Festival Fluxus Art Total” of summer 1963 to the closing of La Cédille qui Sourit in spring 1968, through the collections and archives of Ben and loans from Marcel Alocco. Following a chronological thread, the exhibition shows places, moments, events and works, and unfolds a gallery of protagonists in which one finds – alongside Ben Vautier, George Maciunas, Robert Filliou and George Brecht – Annie Vautier, Marianne Staffeldt, Donna Brewer, Robert Bozzi, Serge III Oldenbourg, Dany Gobert, Pierre Pontani, René Pietropaoli, Marcel Alocco, Robert Erébo, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Joe Jones and many others… This episode in art history, approached through the prism of Fluxus, then…
